jiě

elder sister

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

且 sound component

  Sound component

qiě

  

moreover

Evolution

姐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
姐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

jiě

elder sister, young lady; older sister

Most common words with 姐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

小姐

miss

姐姐

older sister

older sister

姐妹

sisters

大姐

big sister

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 57.1200% of movies

432nd most common character in movies

830th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+59D0

Shuowen

“姐,蜀謂母曰姐,淮南謂之社。从女,且聲。”


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